Apart from Pixel phones, which are entirely “made by Google”, it’s practically impossible to think of any Android devices supported by their manufacturers from a software standpoint beyond the two-year mark.

Some OEMs even stop routinely upgrading the security of their handsets a year or so after commercially releasing them, but not OnePlus. This small but fast-growing company has already delivered one of the fastest Android Pie goodie packs to a non-Pixel phone, inching closer to an official 9.0 rollout for last year’s OnePlus 5 and 5T as well.

What’s perhaps even more impressive, ...